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Enthusiast! : essays on modern American literature / David Herd
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; |
| Year | 2007 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource (212 pages) |
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| Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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| Contents | Introduction: a short essay on enthusiasm Sounding: Henry David Thoreau Ranting: Herman Melville Distributing: Ezra Pound Presenting: Marianne Moore Circulating: Frank O'Hara Relishing: James Schuyler Afterword: enthusiasm and audit |
| Notes | This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers - Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler - have modernized and re-modeled Emerson's founding sense of enthusiasm. The book presents the writer as enthusiast, showing how enthusiasm is fundamental to the composition and the circulation of literature. Enthusiasm, it is argued, is the way literary value is passed on. Starting with a brief history of enthusiasm from Plato to Kant and Emerson, the book features chapters on each of Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, O'Hara, and Schuyler. Each chapter presents an aspect of the writer as enthusiast, the book as a whole charting the changing sense of literary enthusiasm from Romanticism to the present day. Lucidly written and combatively argued, the book will appeal to readers of American Literature or Modern Poetry, and to all those interested in the circulation of literary work Open Access In English Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207) and index digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library Print version record Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010 Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 |
| Authors | *Herd, David. |
| Subjects | FREE:LITERARY CRITICISM / General FREE:American Literature FREE:History FREE:Literacy Criticism FREE:Literature FREE:Modern Poetry LCSH:Enthusiasm in literature LCSH:American literature -- History and criticism All Subject Search FREE:Literature and literary studies FREE:Literature: history and criticism BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General All Subject Search FREE:American literature FREE:Enthusiasm in literature LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books FREE:Essays FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc FREE:Essays |
| Classification | DC22:810.9 |
| ID | ED00003827 |
| ISBN | 1526126303 |